How do you get the same zoom personal meeting
ID every time? Well, maybe not every time but
very often, anyway. It's a great question that I got on my YouTube channel. "I'm
starting, just starting using Zoom as a host with the basic account."
Great! "And I want to have a standard, rarely changing
meeting ID and password." So, how do we do that?
First of all in Zoom when you log into Zoom. I'm into Zoom here.
I've got what's called a personal meeting ID or PMI, and the idea here
is that you're having meetings maybe with the same people
each time. Especially if you're starting in Zoom, chances are
you want to have the same account. You don't want to go through the rigmarole
and the up and back and forth of "what's
your meeting ID this time?" and "What's the password?" and so on.
So if you're having regularly scheduled meetings,
you could use a personal meeting ID. Now a couple of
warnings here. One is so this is on the Zoom
Help Center so I'll include a link to this
in the description of this video. A couple of
warnings here is that you don't really want to use it for back-to-back meetings.
A back-to-back meeting is let's say you've got a meeting from
10 till 11 and then you've got another one from 11 until 12. And the reason you
don't want to do that is that the the 11 o'clock person may
arrive sort of five minutes early and maybe your 10 a.m meeting is just
running really close to the end time and so your
11 o'clock person is going to turn up on the 10 o'clock meeting and if that 10
a.m meeting is a bit of a sensitive one, or maybe a job interview or
or for whatever reason (you know therapy, whatever it might be),
they may not want to both be in on the same meeting, right?
That's why that's one reason you may not want to
to use the same meeting ID. And also with people who you don't
meet with regularly but certainly for my clients
as a business coach I have people who log in
using the same personal meeting ID each time. So how do you do that?
We're logging into Zoom here. So when you log into Zoom
so I've gone into Zoom into the Zoom app and I can go Zoom
and then Preferences, and go straight to my profile
and View the Advanced Features.
As you scroll down here's the personal meeting ID (PMI). Here we go.
Where are we? Okay. Enable Personal Meeting ID. So, this is a unique
number that is assigned just to your account. It doesn't mean that every
meeting has to use that ID, but you can do it and that way it
just makes it easier for you and for your participants to go back
to that same meeting ID each time. So, you just
need to make sure that that's turned on. You can toggle: that's off.
Or I'm going to leave it turned on. What about when you're
scheduling a meeting? Scheduling a meeting: do you want to use
that? So that's in advance if you are scheduling the meeting in
advance. Do you want to use that Personal Meeting ID?
And yes, you can do that. And what about if you're doing a one-off meeting? "Hey!
Let's just get started right now. Let's start a meeting right now."
Do you still want to use that? You can change all of those
settings. Now do you want to set a password
for your Personal Meeting ID? So, this is a
simple security thing, especially if you are making your
Zoom meetings public. For example, you might be announcing it
on YouTube or on a blog or on social media.
"Hey, everybody! Come to my meeting!" If you are worried that sometimes people
are going to hijack your meeting, somebody's going to come in
just because they found your Personal Meeting ID, then
this is a way of protecting you from that.
Now the other thing is that when you do send an invitation to somebody
it's going to have a link including the password,
so they've just really got to click on the link. They don't have to remember all
of the all of the Meeting ID numbers and so on.
The other thing to note is that when people are
calling in over a phone number then they will need to type in the
meeting ID and the password as well. Once again
Personal Meeting ID: you can set it in the preferences under
Zoom and I'm including a link to this instruction page,
depending on what kind of computer you're using and
what browser you're using and all of that sort of stuff. It goes into some
more technical details which is beyond the scope
of this video. So I hope that answers your question. You can enable that
Personal Meeting ID not for back-to-back meetings and
generally for meetings that you are doing with people regularly. It makes it
easier for them and easier for you. Thank you so much for
the question. If you haven't subscribed to the channel
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information on how you can streamline your communications
in your business and streamline your business itself,
and do it with confidence. Thanks for watching.